Barium fluoratum: a case of multiple recurrent ceratocystic tumors

by Martin Jakob

A forty year old
woman comes with ceratocysts in her left lower jaw, which she has had since
four years. She has had an operation to remove the cysts but she feels
that the cysts are growing again in her
jawbone. It is a pressing pain; sometimes the whole jaw is painful.The sun makes her feel
weak; she also has a sun allergy, and headache from sun.She wakes in the
night around 3am.

She is quite unsure
of herself and does not like to say much. She says that it comes from her upbringing,
where she was not allowed to say anything. She is the youngest of 6 children,
and her brother, who was one year older than her, was the king.

The mother was a
difficult, domineering person; no one was even allowed to defend themselves. The
father was milder. The parents ran a restaurant together and the whole family
had to work there. She always wanted to break free and to run away but she was
not allowed to do the apprenticeships that she wanted to. She felt that she
would have been kicked out of the family if she had gone her own way – it was
mostly her father who gave her this feeling. She did not dare to stand up for
herself.

When she feels the
pain in her jawbone, she feels depressed, she lies down, and wants to sleep.

Analysis:

There are a lot of
stage 2 issues in this case:- unsure- does not like to
say much- does not dare to
stand up for herself. She felt, she would have
been kicked out of the family if she did, particularly with her fatherOne could say that
she was rejected by the father, which if we think in terms of Jan Scholten’s
Element Theory, indicates Fluor

Prescription: Calcium fluoratum C 200 and
then MK. This remedy covered
also the pathology quite well.

Follow ups:

In the beginning, she
felt good and had no pain. The X-ray showed that the cysts were stable and had
stopped growing. Mentally, she felt more stable and not so unsure and timid
anymore. After half a year and
regular repetiton of Calcium fluoratum,
however, the pain came back, and the cysts started to grow again.

Calcium carbonicum, Calcium
silicatum, Hecla lava, Syphilinum
and Barium phosphoricum were given
without much relief. After nine months, she had another operation because the
cysts kept growing: the bone areas around the cysts were removed.

Seven months after
the operation, the pain came back, which is the typical sign that the cysts were
growing again.

She, then, tells me
that during the time she worked in her parents’ restaurant, she had too many
responsibilities and it simply felt too much. As mentioned before, I had given
her Barium phosphoricum because her brother had ridiculed and beaten her in
childhood, which was very hard on her.

Another time, she
told me that in the restaurant, which was also a kind of pub, people were often
making vulgar sexual jokes, which was very difficult for her to cope with
emotionally; laughed at (Barium)
sexually (Fluor).

So, in the end, Barium
fluoratum MK was given.

After a short time, the
pain and the feeling that the cysts were coming back were gone. She feels that
this remedy is working on all levels for the first time; both on her mind and the jawbone.

After one year and
regular repetitions of Barium fluoratum,
she feels very good, emotionally and mentally, and the X-ray is clear.